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| the normal amount of lobes in a neutrophil |
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| the color of the cytoplasm of a neutrophil |
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- colorless
- pale pink
- faintly basophilic
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| the granules of a neutrophil stain? |
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- may not stain
- may be light pink
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| how many lobes are in eosinophil |
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| why might the nucleus of an eosinophil be obscurred in a horse? |
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| the granuals are so huge and redish pink |
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| what color is the cytoplasm of an eosinophil |
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| what breed of dog has vacuoles in the cytoplasm of their eosinophils? |
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| which animal has rod shaped granules in their eosinophils? |
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| what color is the cytoplasm in basophil |
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| generally pale blue (basophilic) |
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- purple
- not numerous
- degranulated basos-purple cytoplasm with not granules
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| basophil granules in ruminants, equine, and pigs |
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| numerous deep purple and often obscures the nucleus |
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| which WBC is the largest of the WBCs |
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| monocytes and lymphocytes are what kindof leukocytes? |
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| shapes of the nucleus of monocyte |
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kidney bean
band-shaped to almost lobulated
ameoboid
less clumped chromatin than segs |
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blue-gray
may contain vacuoles or small pink granules |
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what is a reason you may see vacuoles in a monocyte
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| nucleus to cytoplasm ratio. |
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coarsly clumped chromatin
usually round
maybe oval or indented
usually eccentrically placed |
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| color of cytoplasm of lymphocyte |
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| when a lymphocyte is reactive you might be able to see? |
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| rabbits, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians have what instead of neutrophiles |
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| what color are the granules in a heterophil |
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| what is a band neutrophil? |
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| what is the term for when band neutrophils are increase in circulation |
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| what is a common cause for a left shift? |
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| what is an average amount of WBCs that should be seen per LOW power field? |
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| when doing a WBC differential why would you want to look at the feather edge first? |
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| check for clumping, parasites, check for alot of WBCs |
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| when doing an actual count of WBC what objective are you doing the count under? |
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| how many nRBCs do you have to see before you perform a corrected WBC count? |
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Hyposegmentation of ALL granulocytic nuclei
all granulocytes nucleus looks like a band
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| what causes a neutrophil to become hypersegmented? |
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| glucocrticoids could cause this but the most common reason is because its just an "old" neutrophil that has been in circulation for a long time |
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| with Birman cat neutrophil granulation anomaly what color are the granules? |
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| true or false? birman cat neutrophil granulation anomaly causes major problems in the cat? |
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| false- doesnt cause a problem, its an incidental finding. |
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| Chediak-higashi syndrom affects which animals? |
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| what causes chediak-higashi syndrom? |
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3 toxic neutrophil changes
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Dohle bodies
foamy cytoplasm(cytoplasmic vacuolization)
toxic granulation (intensely stained primary granules) |
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| döhle bodies can be found in healthy animals in small numbers, which animals are they? |
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| which has the more severe toxic change? döhle bodies or foamy cytoplasm? |
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| increase in monocytes or lymphocytes |
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| decreased # of any of the cells |
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| Increased # of any of the granulocytes |
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| a malignant increase in WBC |
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| nuclear lysis of neutrophil (usually seen in joint fluid not circulation) |
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| compaction of neutrophil with condensed, dense nuclear material (usually not in blood sample, seen in joint fluid) |
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| fragmentation of nucleus (not usually seen in circulation, found in joint fluid) |
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| cause of reactive lyphocytes |
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| antigenic stimulation (disease, exposed to disease, vaccinated recently) |
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| reactive lymphocyte looks like |
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increased basophilia in cytoplasm- dark purple
may have a more abundant cytoplasm |
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| how should a WBC count be expressed (examples) |
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17.2 X 10^3/μL
17.2 K/μL
17,200 cells/μL |
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| birman cat neutrophil granulation anomaly |
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